Sándor Képíró

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Sándor Képíró (before 1945)

Sandor Kepiro [ ʃaːndor Kepiro ] (* 18th February 1914 in Sarkad , † 3. September 2011 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian officer of the gendarmerie , who at Novi Sad Raid during the Second World War was involved, but the question of guilt by the courts different was rated. He was convicted by a military court for this in 1944, but a new trial in 2011 resulted in an acquittal .

He stood at the death on a from the Simon Wiesenthal Center published list of most wanted Nazi - war in the first place, in 2008 he stood behind John Demjanjuk and Aribert Heim still in third place, but Demjanjuk was convicted in the meantime, and new findings were an earlier death home suspect.

Life

Képíró holds a doctorate in law .

Second World War

A Hungarian military court found Képíró and 13 other defendants guilty of inciting mass murder in the course of the Novi Sad massacre, in which more than 1,000 people were shot and thrown into the Danube, and sentenced the defendants to prison terms of between 10 and 15 years Years. Képíró was sentenced to 10 years in prison. After German troops occupied Hungary shortly afterwards, Képíró was released. After the end of the war he fled to Austria . Képíró is said to have been convicted again in absentia in 1946, but records of it have allegedly been lost. In August 1948 he fled to Argentina together with other National Socialists . There he assumed a different identity and got married.

Return to Hungary and trial in 2011

After Képíró had been assured of impunity, he returned to Hungary unhindered after around 50 years in Argentina. This caused considerable public protests when it became known.

In 2005, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles checked a lead that a man living in Scotland had boasted of having been involved in deportations to Auschwitz . A photo of Képíró was also found on the suspect and he said he was in contact with him. In further investigations, the whereabouts of Képírós, who had been entered in the phone book under his real name, could be determined. Képíró was arrested and handed over to the Hungarian judiciary, but could not be prosecuted for legal reasons.

Képíró lived in Budapest in September 2008 , near a synagogue.

In 2009, Képíró was summoned by the Budapest Public Prosecutor's Office. His trial began in Budapest on May 5, 2011. Képíró was charged with the murder of 36 people in Novi Sad . He declared himself innocent at the start of the trial. Although he was present at the massacre, he did not kill anyone or even fire a rifle. Due to his high age of 97 years, the daily trial duration was limited to no more than three hours.

According to the public prosecutor's office, which demanded a life sentence , Képíró is said to have ordered the murder of 36 people. Historians, however, described the incriminating documents presented as incomplete. On July 18, 2011, Képíró was acquitted in the first instance.

In early September 2011, Képíró died in a Budapest hospital at the age of 97.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spiegel: Register - Died - Sándor Képíró . Der Spiegel 37/2011, p. 170
  2. ^ Lajčo Klajn: The past in present times: the Yugoslav saga . University Press of America, 2007, p. 124
  3. ^ Spiegel: Register - Died - Sándor Képíró . Der Spiegel 37/2011, p. 170
  4. ↑ cf. Trial against Nazi war criminal Kepiro: Not forgotten by the victims ( Memento from May 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, May 5, 2011 (accessed on May 6, 2011).
  5. ↑ cf. AFP : Alleged Nazi criminal Kepiro protests innocence ( memento from January 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at google.com, May 5, 2011 (accessed on May 6, 2011).
  6. ^ Deutsche Welle : acquittal in the trial of Nazi war crimes , July 18, 2011.
  7. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/europe/05kepiro.html
personal data
SURNAME Képíró, Sándor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian officer, convicted person involved in the Novi Sad massacre
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarkad
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 2011
Place of death Budapest